"We have cookies and milk."

Translation: Mamy ciasteczka i mleko.

[lapvago]

Capital letters helping way too much on these kind of tasks. allshould be lowcaps

[irishthief1]

I input "My mamy ciastka i mleko" based on the suggestion in the app, but I've been using ciasteczka otherwise. Can someone explain the difference between the two for me?

I tried googling a bit, but all i got were Polish results (as expected).

[Okcydent]

Hm. So, the first thing is „ciasto” which can be dough or pie. Diminutive of it is: ciastko. BUt it is very rarely used to denote small pie. Mostly it happens to be biscuit/cookie. Diminutive of ciastko is ciasteczko. A small ciastko is ciasteczko.

Similarly: Zegar (clock), zegarek (wrist watch), zegareczek (small watch)

We can derive even more diminutives (some are used, some are theoretical):

• ciastunio, ciasteńko, ciastusio, ciastenieczko (small dough/pie).
• deriving anything from ciastko/ciasteczko is hard, maybe: ciasteczeńko (1 google result :)) or ciasteczeczko.

[A__drian]

Is ciasteczka always plural? Is this why it doesn't take the ą ending when it is the object of the verb

[VarHyid]

No. One cookie is "ciasteczko" and it will never end with an "ą".

This is the full declension table for both the singular and plural: http://odmiana.net/odmiana-przez-przypadki-rzeczownika-ciasteczko

[pye20]

Mamy • Ciasteczka • i • Mleko ‧ • ‧ • ‧ Mamy • Mieć ( to have - Verb • From Proto-Slavic Jьměti (stem Jьma-) • ęti ( to take ) )

Inf ↓	1st	2nd	3rd	1st	2nd	3rd
ProN →	Ja	Ty	On Ona Ono	My	Wy	Oni One
Mieć	Mam	Masz	Ma	Mamy	Macie	Mają

Ciasteczko +‎ -ko Diminutive of Ciastko ( small cake, cupcake, cookie, internet http cookie - Noun ) • Ciastec - zko / Ciastec - zka ( cookie/s )

Num ↓	Nom	Gen	Dat	Acc	Ins	Loc	Voc
Sing →	zko	zka	zku	zko	zkiem	zku	zko
Plu →	zka	zek	zkom	zkay	zkami	zkach	zka

i ( and - Conjunction )

Mleko ( Milk - Noun Neuter • dim Mleczko ) • From Proto-Slavic Melko, borrowed from Proto-Germanic Meluks, from Proto-Indo-European H₂melǵ- • Mle - ko Sing → ko ka ku ko kiem ku ko

Num ↓	Nom	Gen	Dat	Acc	Ins	Loc	Voc
Sing →	ko	ka	ku	ko	kiem	ku	ko

[JACOBhH]

It is strange

[VarHyid]

Let us know what's strange about it and we'll gladly help you clarify it :)

[Nurse_Tbo]

Its the spellimg of cookies! Haha

[Lau5ra20]

Why there are two pronouns for "we" ~ wy and my ... ?? How should I use eachother?

[Emwue]

There aren't two pronouns for 'we' – „my” is the first person plural and „wy” is the second person plural.

• „My mamy” = 'We have'
• „Wy macie” = 'Y'all have'

[JacekWilka]

my mamy = we have got
wy macie = you have got

[izzy337718]

The spellings are so tricky

[picturefra]

Isn't cookies supposed to be plural?

[alik1989]

It is. Singular would be: ciasteczko.